Who is Nancy Kerrigan and where is she now?

In this photo, taken Jan. 12, 1992, Tonya Harding, left, and Nancy Kerrigan appear at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Orlando, Fla. It's been nearly 20 years since Kerrigan was clubbed after practice at the U.S. figure skating nationals in Detroit by a member of a bumbling goon squad hired by Harding's ex-husband with the hope of eliminating his former wife's top competition for the 1994 U.S. Olympic team.(Photo: Phil Sandlin, AP)

Nancy Kerrigan was born a welder's daughter on Oct. 13, 1969, in Woburn, Mass. She was a Boston tomboy who played hockey with her brothers and would became one of the most well-known U.S. figure skaters in history.

By the time she was 9, she was skating every day after school.

The story of an attack on Kerrigan in 1994 after a practice session for the U.S. National Championships at Cobo Arena in Detroit would become one of the most stunning, dramatic sports stories.

In 1994, at the age of 24, Kerrigan felt that she was peaking right on schedule for the nationals and the Olympics, that a lifetime of practice and sacrifice was finally going to pay off for her and her family.

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The film 'I, Tonya,' starring Margot Robbie focuses on the life figure skater Tonya Harding and her role in the attack on rival skater Nancy Kerrigan in Detroit.
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The Kerrigans didn't have much money. Her father, Dan, had worked extra jobs, taken out loans and refinanced the home to keep his daughter's Olympic hopes alive.

Her mother, Brenda, was her biggest fan, although she had never seen her daughter skate. A virus stole her eyesight in 1970, shortly after Nancy was born.

But she could sense when Nancy was at her best, and this seemed to be one of those times.

Corporate America sensed it, too. A month before the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, and two years after winning the bronze medal at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France, the woman with the Katharine Hepburn cheekbones had already secured endorsements with Reebok, Evian, Seiko and Campbell's Soup.

Skating magazines featured Kerrigan on the covers of their pre-Olympic editions.

"So beautiful."

"So elegant."

"A gold-medal favorite," the stories said.

But in January 1994, Kerrigan's Olympic gold medal dreams would be put to the ultimate test.

As Kerrigan walked through a blue curtain into a Cobo Arena hallway that led to the locker room after a practice session, a large man in a black leather coat and black hat ran toward her from behind and whacked her right knee with a metal baton.

"Why me? Why now?" she shrieked as she collapsed to the floor.

Figure skating would never be the same.

Kerrigan's skating rival Tonya Harding, Harding's ex-husband Jeff Gillooly and three of his henchmen were later found guilty of the attack.

The injury knocked Kerrigan out of the national championships, but she was expected to heal in time for the Olympics and was given a spot on the U.S. team.

Tonya Harding barely holds onto her emotions as she stops her routine and heads to the judges stand to plead her case on skate problems she had during the Women's Figure Skating competition Feb. 25, 1994. Julian H. Gonzalez/Detroit Free Press

Tonya Harding of Portland, Ore., twists above the ice as she completes her routine on her way to winning the ladies technical program of the Skate America International competition in Dallas Friday night, Oct. 22, 1993. Tim Sharp/Associated Press

Tonya Harding uses the ice rink boards to help herself up from the ice after a fall at her second practice in Hamar, Norway as she prepered for the Lillehammer Olympics. Julian H. Gonzalez/Detroit Free Press

Tonya Harding of Vancouver, Wash., tries to get up off the mat after falling with opponent Samantha Browning of Mantachie, Miss., during their professional debut bout, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2003, in Memphis, Tenn. Browning defeated Harding in a split decision. Dave Martin/Associated Press

Former figure skater and aspiring boxer Tonya Harding has her hand raised after sparring with her trainer and promoter Paul Brown between periods of the Indianapolis Ice-Colorado Eagles hockey game Friday, March 12, 2004, in Indianapolis. John Harrell/Associated Press

Figure skater Tonya Harding waves to fans at the end of her last practice in Portland, Ore., Wednesday, March 16, 1994, before heading for the World Figure Skating Championships in Japan. Shane Young/Associated Press

U.S. Figure Skating champion Tonya Harding waves to photographers shooting her from rinkside after jumping, falling and sliding in the wall during her practice in Portland, Ore., Wednesday, Feb. 2, 1994. Don Ryan/Associated Press

U.S. figure skater Tonya Harding (background) watches as teammate Nancy Kerrigan practices her routine during their second joint practice of the day Thursday, Feb. 17, 1994, at the Hamar Olympic Amphitheatre. Ed Hille/Philadelphia Inquirer/KRT

Tonya Harding, figure-skating star turned professional boxer, talks with Kevin Koyl during at press conference to promote "Turf Wars" cage -fighting at the Palace of Auburn Hills in January 2009. William Archie/Detroit Free Press

This is a police booking mug of figure skater Tonya Harding taken on March 18, 1994 at the Portland, Oregon, Justice Center, as she appeared for mug shots, fingerprinting and a probation hearing. Harding pleaded guilty in Portland Wednesday to a conspiracy charge in the attack on Nancy Kerrigan. AP

DETROIT, UNITED STATES: Tonya Harding pumps her fists as she finishes her gold medal winning program at the women's championship 08 January 1994 at the 1994 U.S. Figure Skating Championships. Harding and Nancy Kerrigan, who did not compete because she was wounded in an attack by an unknown assailant 06 January, will represent the U.S. at the 1994 Winter Olympics. (Photo credit should read CHRIS WILKINS/AFP/Getty Images) CHRIS WILKINS AFP/Getty Images

With the back-to-back performances, Kerrigan became the first U.S. woman to win figure skating medals in consecutive Winter Games since Carol Heiss won silver in 1956 and gold in 1960.

Kerrigan experienced a bit of additional chaos during and after the Olympics.

CBS cameras caught her making what seemed like unkind post-Olympic comments about tearful gold winner Oksana Baiul as they waited for their medals.

There was that Disney World parade where she was criticized for appearing to dis Mickey Mouse. And, later, the National Enquirer did a splashy, big-picture story in which Kerrigan was called "a home-wrecker" in the divorce of her agent, now-husband Jerry Solomon.

As of 2014, Kerrigan was living in Boston with her three children and Solomon.

She has built a successful life of endorsements, corporate appearances and skating shows.

Kerrigan has largely avoided controversy save a tragedy in 2010, when her 70-year-old father suffered a heart attack and died shortly after an altercation with her brother, Mark. The family maintained Mark was not at fault, but in June 2011 he was convicted of assault and battery in connection with the death and sent to prison. He was released in 2012.

Kerrigan served as a figure skating analyst during the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics.

Nancy Kerrigan, photo from 2011(Photo: AP)

She competed on "Dancing with the Stars" in 2017 and finished sixth with partner Artem Chigvintsev.

On the show, Kerrigan revealed she had six miscarriages in an eight-year span after the birth of her first child, Matthew, in 1996.

Former Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerrigan is pictured with her dance partner Artem Chigvintsev as photos of Kerrigan with her children appear during a segment in "Dancing With The Stars."(Photo: Eric McCandless, AP Images)

In an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America" Kerrigan called the miscarriages "devastating" and said they were hard on her marriage.

She says one of the most painful moments came after one miscarriage, when she had to tell an excited Matthew that he wasn't going to be a big brother.

Kerrigan says she turned to in vitro fertilization for the births of son Brian and daughter Nicole.

"We fought hard for this family," Kerrigan, said during a "DWTS" segment. "I want to say to my kids through this dance, never give up ... keep trying."

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Nancy Kerrigan is sharing her story about her pregnancy struggles, which included at least six miscarriages, in the hopes of reducing the stigma around the topic.
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With the December 2018 release of the movie, "I, Tonya," which focuses on the life of Harding and the attack on Kerrigan, the tumultuous time in Kerrigan's life is in the spotlight again.

"I really don't look back unless someone asks me to look back, and then I have to," Kerrigan told USA TODAY Sports in 2014 in a telephone interview. "Otherwise, why would I? I was attacked."